Good luck! If I tried to write it, it’d probably be them getting to the house only to DISCOVER A DEAD BODY. Dun dun dunnnnn. 😛
Hey, First, thank you for your tumblr. I discovered a lot of (great!) new shows because of you! Your followers probably already mentioned it, but if you need another dark german tv series with a very gay Antje Traue in it, I’d like to recommend Dead End. It’s not the most original show (basic procedural set in a small town) but the main couple is cute (and unexpected!). I’m kind of bummed nobody’s talking about it (never felt so alone in a ship)…
Hi! Well, thank you. 🙂
None of my followers mentioned it, so let us judge them together. 😛 But while I have actually heard of it, I don’t see any way to watch with English subtitles? For some other zdf shows, they have German closed captioning, so if you toggle on Chrome’s auto-translate, that about works. Here, though, no such luck. Do you know of any way to access them?
I just finished Dark too. I enjoyed this season as much as the first. I don’t know how I feel about the finale multiverse reveal. I also don’t understand how Charlotte is Elisabeth’s mother while Elisabeth is the mother of her own mom(Charlotte).
SPOILERS IN THE ASK AND IN THE RESPONSE.
I was into the multiverse reveal, it felt like a good new element for a new season that didn’t break credulity, given all the other craziness. And I felt the fridging of Martha was unfair to the character, so it was cool to see her pop up looking all cool, even though I expect this world’s version to still be in play.
Well, I can see your objection to it too, though, because we’ve had no mention of it in almost two full seasons now, so what is its sudden place in the story? How come we saw so much of all the travelers going back and forth, but no mention of this? Is it a brand new element to even the existing characters, or has older Jonas lived through it and simply felt he hadn’t needed to mention it to anyone? That’s a bit convenient. In the original cycles, younger Jonas experiences Martha’s death, that’s why older Jonas tries to get her to stay in the bunker and how Adam can refer to it as a pain that shapes him and the lack of which frees him. But if he’s with her and thus outside the bunker, how does he survive the apocalypse? Is his escaping into the multiverse always a part of that?
Ugh, while on one level I can be like ohhh, Charlotte’s mom is Elisabeth, what a tweest!, another part of me is just like, ugh, Noah, you gross weirdo. I’m not sure he knew but he’s already gross in a million other ways so I’m still gonna judge him. What most likely happened is that the younger version of him that went into the bunker at the end survives with Elisabeth, an appropriate number of years later they fell in love and then what most definitely happens is that they have a baby. That baby, Charlotte, is then taken back in time and placed with HG Tannhaus, grows up out of time the way Mikkel did, and eventually meets Peter Doppler and has Elisabeth. Well, it’s possible Elisabeth was taken back, had the kid, then pushed forward again.
There’s still so much to tell, like, what is Agnes’s role in all this? What happens to Agnes and Doris, and I’m not just curious because I’m gay. How did quiet Doris’s line lead to the Tiedemanns while Agnes led to the Nielsens? How come Regina was all, we don’t have anything to do with the Nielsens… How did older Jonas get the scars on his back, where was Hannah when the apocalypse happened? What ended up happened to Bartosz? At the end of the ep, older Jonas and the three kids, Magnus, Franziska, and Bartosz (which I now realize represent each of the three families, Nielsen, Tiedemann, and Doppler) go off, and we know Franziska and Magnus stay with Jonas/Adam as helpers, but what happens to Bartosz? WHAT IF…Adam is older Bartosz? But no, he knew all about Jonas’s life. What is that new cop’s connection with everything, he only knows his brother disappeared but Aleksander was looking at articles about murder. What was older Jonas referring to when he said Claudia became what she was fighting? Who is the one trying to stop the apocalypse, Claudia or Adam!
OOF. I don’t know how the latest Henry pic didn’t inspire you to do a thousand things for Julianatina week. The way Valentina looks at Juls’ lips? How Val’s right hand is right behind her head??!!! I don’t write fan fic usually, but I constantly do for them (in my head). If you can’t do it (and believe me I get it) I may try. Don’t mind me while I go look at that pic again…
Oh, heh, no no no, inspiration isn’t the problem, it never is, I usually have trouble trying to narrow down the possible ideas. But mostly it’s trying to focus on one thing for that long and be all creative and fancy, something I’m not so good at.
That latest Henry pic, OOF indeed!
I like how you refer to them as Juls and Val, it really is an in-character photoshoot they went ahead and did on their own time and dime. Since the car pics came out, I’ve been surprised at how uninhibited they’ve looked. Even in that vid, they weren’t self-conscious at all!
You should write your fic! Whatcha planning for this one? Finally returning to Valle and not being interrupted? 😛
How are you liking this season of Dark? Better than last? Confusing because it’s been so long? I haven’t began it yet.
The second option, I really should have rewatched it before starting the new season because I was super confused at the start. But the longer I watched the more things fell into place, especially since it does often use the technique of cutting straight from a person in one time to that some person in another.
I can’t really say it’s better or worse, I am still liking it, every time a parallel happens or something good is revealed, I still go ooooh, like when we see [young Agnes!]. I’m still loving Jonas, this poor kid goes through SO MUCH. Still hating Noah and [Adam Sarandon], still dislike [Ulrich’s stupid aggression, attacking everyone].
What I really love, and I think this season highlightes that a lot more, is how much the show is driven by familial love. Sure, a huge part of it are the family ties through the generations, but it’s just really genuine and lovely to see, amid all the rest of the plot. It’s not just what’s convenient for the plot, it’s what grounds the plot.
If I remember correctly you made Agnes/Doris gifs from Dark on Netflix. Have you began season 2?
Yep! I’ll wait to gif until I finish the season, still got some eps to go.
Do you watch Jessica Jones? If you do, do you ship Jessica x Trish?
As I’ve been settling down to post angrily about JJ for the next year and wondering why I feel so strongly about something I’ve literally never posted about before, I remembered I never answered these old asks sent around the time the first season came out, back in 2016. And you’re no longer around probably but I’m gonna clear out these asks if it’s the last thing I do.
By the time I watched, I’d forgotten about them, but I was actually pretty hazy myself on the ship question for a long time. That ending in s1, that I love you moment, was so, so wonderful and effective, I would kill to have something like that in canon f/f. Something that meaningful to the plot and meaningful in itself, this abrasive hard-bitten character softening for just that moment, in just that way. It was perfect, easily one of my favorite scenes ever.
But at the time, back then, I was in a weird place with subtext ships, thinking I’d finally “graduated” to canon, so I didn’t get heavily into it. Plus, there was Luke. Then season 2 came along and his role was lessened but the show was all about Jess and Trish as sisters and they weren’t exactly left in the best of places. At this point, though, I’ve accepted I’ll always ship subtext and I no longer care what the show says. I am on this ship.
Did trish get superpowers at last?? :o
Yep, she did.
God the trishica feels. Are they mocking us?
Oof, well, there’s always the risk of it coming across like that when you know the writers are aware of a ship, but at least it wasn’t as egregious as the Maze/Linda moment in Lucifer, I’d say. Sometimes I wonder if it’s supposed to be a nod to the shippers, a little “it won’t happen, but have this” or a bit more mocking.
On the one hand, they’ve been sisterzoned, but on the other, surely if everyone thinks of them as sisters, this wouldn’t come up, at least not from THIS person of all people and if it did, her objection wouldn’t be that Jessica isn’t a good enough lesbian! So I can get if people don’t like it, but personally, I just shrugged. Better for my own peace of mind too, not gonna lie.
As someone who’s watching In the Dark: Jess didn’t sleep with Felix, she stopped when he pulled down his boxers and she said something along the lines “I’m SO gay”. Even though they made clear Jess is indeed a lesbian I wasn’t happy with the scene. It was so unnecessary: Jess wasn’t questioning her sexuality, it didn’t add anything to the storyline. Maybe the writer was also smoking pot writing that scene…
Oh, thanks for clarifying! And yes, even getting to this point JUST so they can make that joke…meh.
And another anon:
Lmao I was actually the one that started watching Bc of ur gifset ? But I knew the possibilities when I started another cw show lol. I’m 100% uninterested in any arc where Jess realizes she’s bi after being completely biphobic and secure in her identity as a lesbian. It’s bad messaging all around. And just plain bad writing. I’m so sick of storylines where lesbians gotta prove they’re gay by fucking a dude or where sexuality is only fluid for lesbians. I get ppl can be fluid irl, but still.
Oh lol, whoops. Glad you don’t hold it against me. 😛 And it looks like it isn’t Jess discovering she’s bi, but it still doesn’t help anything. Just, what even was the point… Gotta reinforce she’s a lesbian by having her actively not sleep with a man on screen?